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Christine Benz: Hi, I'm Christine Benz for Morningstar.com.
Premiums on long-term care insurance policies have been skyrocketing, and one major insurer has stopped issuing the policies altogether.
Here to discuss how consumers should respond to these changes in the long-term care insurance market is Mark Miller. Mark is the author of The Hard Times Guide to Retirement Security.
Mark, thanks so much for being here.
Mark Miller: Thanks, Christine.
Benz: So, you've recently written an interesting piece about this space, Mark, and first let's talk about why these premiums on long-term care insurance policies are going up so much?
Miller: Well, it has to do with the way that the insurance carriers initially price the products, and they're finding that they're coming up short, if you will, because of the low interest rate environment, which they rely on to maintain and fund the portfolios of policies. And then something called the lapse rate, and that's just the percentage of policy holders who let their policies lapse. Now this is an interesting convoluted issue. So, bear with me for second.
It's a bad thing for consumers to let their policies lapse. Once you buy them, you want to hang on to them; the more years go on, you have got more invested in it, if you will. But from the insurance company's standpoint, and not that they want you to lapse, but actuarially when they project the prices on these policies, what they're doing is saying, well we expect a certain number of people to fall off at a certain point. Of course, when you do fall off and let the policy lapse that's pure profit to the insurance company.
Benz: So, that's more money that's in the kitty to pay for everybody's benefits who stays in.
Miller: So, what's happened is lapse rates have been real low; 1% to 2%. Good news from a consumer standpoint--that means people who are buying them are doing the right thing, sticking with them.
The insurance companies just thought that this would behave more or like other types of insurance where lapse rates are higher. So, that's costing the companies, too.
So, as a result some of the big carriers have been going into the state regulators around the country asking for really big rate increases, sometimes as high as 40% this year, some of them are quite large.
Benz: Okay. So, are any of the state regulators pushing back and saying, no you can't have this?
Miller: They're getting granted it in many cases. So, it's a big rate shock. Then the other thing that's happened that was significant and caught my eye was when MetLife decided to stop writing new policies, and that caught my eye because I think when a major respected carrier says they're washing their hands in the market, that suggests to me that the industry really is going through some re-evaluation.
The other thing about long-term care insurance is, no matter how much people like us nag people and say this is good stuff to have, overall, the market penetration for LTCI is still only about 5%.
Benz: Okay. So, Mark say someone has a policy, and they've seen one of these really high jumps-up in terms of their premiums. What you do? What are your defense tactics?
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Effect of particulate aggregation in aquatic environments on the beam attenuation and its utility as a proxy for particulate mass
Optics Express, Vol. 17, Issue 11, pp. 9408-9420 (2009)
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Marine aggregates, agglomerations of particles and dissolved materials, are an important particulate pool in aquatic environments, but their optical properties are not well understood. To improve understanding of the optical properties of aggregates, two related studies are presented. In the first, an in situ manipulation experiment is described, in which beam attenuation of undisturbed and sheared suspensions are compared. Results show that in the sheared treatment bulk particle size decreases and beam attenuation increases, consistent with the hypothesis that a significant fraction of mass in suspension is contained in fragile aggregates. Interestingly, the magnitude of increase in beam attenuation is less than expected if the aggregates are modeled as solid spheres. Motivated by this result, a second study is presented, in which marine aggregates are modeled to assess how the beam attenuation of aggregates differs from that of their constituent particles and from solid particles of the same mass. The model used is based on that of Latimer [Appl. Opt. 24, 3231 (1985)] and mass specific attenuation is compared with that based on homogeneous and solid particles, the standard model for aquatic particles. In the modeling we use recent research relating size and solid fraction of aquatic aggregates. In contrast with Mie theory, this model provides a rather size-insensitive mass specific attenuation for most relevant sizes. This insensitivity is consistent with the observations that mass specific beam-attenuation of marine particles is in the range 0.2-0.6m2/gr despite large variability in size distribution and composition across varied aquatic environments.
OCIS Codes
(010.0010) Atmospheric and oceanic optics : Atmospheric and oceanic optics
(120.5820) Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology : Scattering measurements
(290.2200) Scattering : Extinction
(290.2558) Scattering : Forward scattering
(010.4458) Atmospheric and oceanic optics : Oceanic scattering
ToC Category:
Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics
Original Manuscript: February 19, 2009
Revised Manuscript: May 19, 2009
Manuscript Accepted: May 19, 2009
Published: May 21, 2009
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Vol. 4, Iss. 7 Virtual Journal for Biomedical Optics
Emmanuel Boss, Wayne Slade, and Paul Hill, "Effect of particulate aggregation in aquatic environments on the beam attenuation and its utility as a proxy for particulate mass," Opt. Express 17, 9408-9420 (2009)
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Storyboard is designed to be used to develop and run fullscreen application user interfaces. Developing a Storyboard based application is straightforward and easy, but relies on understanding a few concepts and terms and how they relate to one another within the Storyboard framework.
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Storyboard Designer and Engine use the same terminology in general, but in some instances, namely rendering properties, Designer uses more human readable names. |
A Storyboard application is composed of a hierarchy of model elements: Screens, layers and controls.
An application can be composed of multiple screens however only a single screen is ever visible at one time.
Each screen is composed of one or more layers. The screen controls how multiple layers have their content composited together to form final display output. When possible, layers may be mapped directly to ayers in the graphic hardware. Multiple screens can reference the same layer, effectively sharing the visual content of the layer and creating multiple layer instances. All layer instances share the same visual content, but the position and visibility of the layer is specific to the screen context where it is being used. When a screen is painted the z-order of the layer instances is used to determine which areas of a layer are visible to the user.
Layers contain controls. Controls are the containers for renderable content such as images and text. A control is sized and positioned relative to its parent layer and contains zero or more render extensions that describe the type of rendering to occur when the control is damaged and redrawn. Controls are the only model elements in a Storyboard application that track input focus.
Each of the screen, layer and control model elements are named items. The names may not collide and must be unique throughout the application.
A screen represents the user's view at any given moment. A screen is composed of one or more layers. These layers are composited to the screen in a z-order (back to front) in order to combine to form the desired output. Each screen in the system must have a unique name and by the use of actions and events a user can traverse the user interfaces many screens.
Here is an example of a screen containing three layers containing controls with images and text that combine to form the final screen:
Controls are contained in layers. A user interface can have 1 or more layers which in turn are composed of 1 or more controls. Layers are logical groupings of controls and can also react to events and execute actions. As with controls, layers can be shown or hidden as required. A single layer can be reused across multiple screens to allow common controls to be displayed.
A user interface is made up of many controls. A control is a rectangular area of the screen which can render content and react to events. Each control can be made up of many render extensions and react to any number of events. Controls can be shown or hidden and active/inactive as the system requires. A special type of control called a table is available in order to create a row/column based layout of information. Each column in a table can have a distinct template for rendering. This allows the efficient and easy creation of list style information.
A render extension is the most basic piece of the user interface. It is responsible for rendering a specific type of content. Render extensions must be bound to a specific control and are not permitted to draw beyond the boundaries of the control to which they are bound. It is possible to include multiple render extensions on a control and the order in which they are declared in the deployment bundle will define the order in which they perform their rendering.
Some render extensions included with the standard Storyboard release include:
Render an image (PNG, GIF, JPEG)
Render a text string
Render a filled rectangle or polygon
Render a 3D model (OBJ, GLES)
When designing a user interface, it is often possible to achieve the same look and feel by using multiple render extensions on a control or by using multiple controls with overlapping behavior. The general rule of thumb is that multiple render extensions on a single control should be used when there is a common event to action binding that would occur for all of the visual components being displayed.
Events are the basic communication mechanism for triggering activity and passing data in a Storyboard application.
Events contain a name and a binary data payload. The content of the data payload is described using a format string that allows clients to generically decode the data payload. For example the Lua action performs this decoding to allow access to the event data using string keys.
Events may be received from multiple input sources, but are processed serially by the Storyboard Engine. Clients can quickly and easily define their own custom events to enhance to drive their application and use these in conjunction with the standard events event definitions provided by Storyboard.
A complete list of standard events can be found in the events definition section of this document.
New events can readily be defined and are not required to contain
a data payload, in which case their format string and data payload
will be empty values. When creating new events, it is appropriate
to namespace the event definitions so that the names of events do
not collide. For example the Storyboard framework reserves the name
prefix of gre.
for user interface events and the timer
functions all generate events that are prefixed with
The use of events is closely coupled with the declaration and operation of actions. An action can only be invoked when an event matching the action definition is received. This results in a common design pattern where an action will perform sophisticated logic in an external script or program and then signal a completion action to run once the script work is complete.
Event >Action (script) >Work >Trigger Event >Action (completion)
The format string on the event is used to assist with the decoding of the event data. This decoding is used in the action bindings, to allow a minimal amount of additional logic to be placed into the event matching code and also by certain advanced actions, such as Lua scripts, that can symbolically access the event data in the context of the script.
The format string is a description of the data structure passed in
the event, it uses entries that are formatted with
[numbytes][signed/unsigned][numelements][ ][name]
For the standard C data types the number formatting would look
1s0 --> Special null terminated string 1s1|1u1 --> 1 byte integer (int8_t uint8_t) 2s1|2u1 --> 2 byte integer (int16_t uint16_t) 4s1|4u1 --> 4 byte integer (int32_t uint32_t) 8s1|8u1 --> 8 byte integer (int64_t uint64_t)
So if you were transmitting a structure such as:
struct { int32_t a; uint16_t b; };
You could use a format string containing 4s1 a 2u1 b
to describe the event. The a
and b
descriptions are optional, but if present they provide a symbolic
description of the data for other applications. The Lua script
plugin, for example, will use the symbolic name information to
transform the event content into a table with the individual
elements appropriately decoded.
Events trigger actions. Actions do something; manipulate data, interact with the system, log messages, generate more events etc.
Actions can be associated with any model object but they are frequently associated with controls. When an event is received it is matched first against the action's associated with the currently focused control. After the control's actions the processing passes to the actions associated with the visible layers on the screen followed by the screen and application actions. This cascade of action handling provides an opportunity for the action execution to take place in model context (application, screen, layer, control) that is most appropriate.
Actions always are invoked in response to an event to perform some sort of activity and are always executed in the context of the main execution thread. The trigger event may be a Storyboard standard event or a user event and may come from within the application, from a Lua script action, or be generated from an external program and injected using the Storyboard IO library.
More than one action may be invoked when an event is received. In this case the order in which the actions are declared within the design is the sequence that they will be invoked when an input event is matched. This action ordering can be used to ensure an order of operations execution, for example changing the value of a data variable before executing a script that references that data variable.
The following demonstrates how the a gre.press
triggers a gra.datachange
For more information on the Storyboard Engine execution pipeline, refer to the Execution Pipeline section of this document.
Actions are extensible components in the Storyboard framework and are usually implemented as plugins to be included in the runtime environment. Plugins have the ability to hook into the Storyboard Engine managers and can provide a bridge between a Storyboard operation and the embedded system outside of the application.
A complete list of standard actions can be found in the Action Definitions section of this document.
All user accessible data in Storyboard is maintained in an application database by the Storyboard Engine data manager. The data manager provides centralized notification when data changes to registered clients within the Storyboard framework.
The data manager stores entries as key/value pairs where the key is a fully qualified model path (string) and the value is a set of bytes with a corresponding format string describing how the data payload should be interpreted.
The Storyboard model is hierarchical, so the construction of a fully
qualified model path is straightforward process of joining model element
name segments with a .
(dot) in between them. The following
list demonstrates how the fully qualified model name is formed for a
variable, varname
, associated with different contexts in the
This identifies a variable, varname
, as being
an application level variable
This identifies a variable, varname
, as being
associated with the screen screen_name
This identifies a variable, varname
, as being
associated with the layer layer_name
This identifies a variable, varname
, as being
associated with the layer instance layer_name
associated with the screen screen_name
Most variables are not defined as layer instance variables, but rather as layer variables.
This identifies a variable, varname
, as being
associated with the control control_name
is located on the layer layer_name
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There is some overlap in the Storyboard namespace that could lead to ambiguous resolution. However control/layer/screen names must be unique which makes the keys in this space non-overlapping. This restriction is enforced by Storyboard Designer. |
Using the fully qualified model paths can be cumbersome and impose extra maintenance effort as a project evolves or changes. Storyboard defines several variable shortcuts that will expand their value based on the current model context in which they are being resolved.
Refers to the application variable varname
Refers to the current screen's variable
Refers to the current layer's variable
Refers to the current control's variable
For example, assuming a Storyboard model of:
+ MainScreen
+ FirstLayer
+ AControl
+ SecondLayer
+ AnotherControl
the current focus is associated with the control AControl
, then
a reference to a variable varname
would resolve to a fully
qualified path as follows:
Often these variables are used within render extensions and actions to
define access to a dynamic value that will be adjusted at runtime.
Alternatively, application variables can be used to provide an application
wide setting for a particular value. For example if all text render
extensions made their font names be associated with an application variable
, then by changing the value of the
variable we could change all the fonts in the
Valid data variables and control/layer/screen names must follow the following rules:
A valid name matches the following [a-zA-Z]+[a-zA-Z0-9_]*
Starts with a character a-z/A-Z not a digit or special character
Only '_' is supported as a special character, no spaces in names
Screen, Layer, Controls must all be uniquely named
User variables cannot collide with a Screen/Layer/Control name
The prefix of grd
is reserved for Storyboard
internal variables
The character .
(dot) is reserved as a namespace
Controls and Layers can be manipulated at runtime by modifying their
internal data variables. These variables are created for each control
and layer in the application use the reserved grd_
These variables are generally accessed using
, for example
to indicate the x position of the
current control
The following values can be queried and changed through the normal data management channels.
(format = 4s1)The control's x position relative to its layer
(format = 4s1)The control's y position relative to its layer
(format = 4s1)The control's width
(format = 4s1)The control's height
(format = 4s1)The control's z-index position. This sets the stacking order of controls within it's layer where 0 is at the back (furthest from the eye).
(format = 1u1)The control's visibility. A value of 0 indicates that the control is visible and 1 that it is hidden
(format = 1u1)A value of 0 states that the control is active (can receive and react to events) and 1 for an inactive control (cannot receive or react to events)
(format = 1u1)Indicates if the control is opaque to events, if opaque (1) then the control will block events from being handled by other controls. If the value is 0 then the events flow through the control to ones behind it.
The following values can be queried and changed through the normal data management channels. The position variables are relative to the screen.
(format = 4s1)The layer instance's x position relative to the screen
(format = 4s1)The layer instance's y position relative to the screen
(format = 1u1)The layer's transparency value. The values range from 255 (opaque) to 0 (transparent)
(format = 1u1)The layer's visibility. A value of 0 states that the layer and all of its controls are visible and a value of 1 hides the layer and all of its controls
A table contains all of the control variables and also a set of
table specific variables. These table specific variables can be
queried but not dynamically changed. In order to change these
values in a table actions are provided:
, gra.table.scroll
The variables are as follows.
(format = 4s1)The number of rows in the table
(format = 4s1)The number of columns in the table
(format = 4s1)The number of visible rows in the table
(format = 4s1)The number of visible columns in the table
(format = 4s1)The row index of the currently active cell
(format = 4s1)The column index of the currently active cell
(format = 4s1)The table's current top left row
(format = 4s1)The table's current top left column
In addition to providing a framework for defining the visual display of an application, the Engine framework contains a data manager that is responsible for maintaining the state information that controls the behavior of the application, such as which screens to display and what content should be rendered inside of a control. The Data Manager contains variables that are user defined (string keys) and typed (string, integer etc) and can be readily modified.
Most often the Data Manager variables are modified by the application itself as it responds to events in the system. Events are asynchronous triggers, originating internally or externally to the Engine, that are in turn mapped to actions that perform work in the system.
Actions are where all of the real 'execution' is performed within an Engine. Actions are managed as extensions to the Engine and are flexible. Some of the built-in actions include changing content in the data manager, manipulating timers, logging messages or triggering additional events both inside and outside of the Storyboard framework.
Below is the execution pipeline that is associated with the internal execution of the Storyboard Engine.
Execution commences with the arrival of an input event to the Storyboard Engine's IO Manager. That event is matched to all of the available actions that are in context by the Action Manager and executed in sequence. Changes in state will result in the a notification to the Screen Manager which will manage the update and refresh of the visual display by invoking the appropriate rendering modules based on the current context.
While the Engine defines a number of standard user interface types of events, there is no limit to the number of new events that can be created to control custom logic in an application. There can be multiple event input event sources concurrently generating events, however the events are queued and the delivery of the events, and potential execution of actions as a result, is serialized by the main application thread. This serialization is discussed further in the Execution Environment section of this document.
The application changes its internal state in response to events via actions bound to particular Storyboard model objects.
As an event is processed, it is matched against what events the action handlers available in a particular screen context are expecting. When there is a match between the received event and the expected event, then the action handler is invoked. The action handler is invoked with arguments set in the deployment bundle as well as the context of the invocation. The context includes the current screen, the current and focused controls as well as the event and its payload.
Multiple actions can be bound to a single event. These actions will be serially executed based on the order in which they were declared in the Design environment. The first declared action is the first action executed.
Actions can be declared on controls, layers, screens and applications. The event to action matching is performed first for controls based on screen display order (where applicable) and moves sequentially up the stack to process layer, screen and the application actions. The execution of actions does not stop when one action handler is executed, with the exception that if a control is marked as opaque, then no additional controls will have their action handlers invoked . If an event is directed (an event which has a position) the only layer which this control is part of will have action handlers invoked, otherwise the actions for all layers will be invoked. Once control and layer actions have been invoked the following continues to the active screen and application context. The following diagram illustrates the affects of control flags on action handlers for a directed event (an event which has a position):
The following diagram illustrates the flow for an event which does not have positional information. These events may be targeted at a specific control or the focused control.
When an event is received the event is delivered to the currently focused control and this controls layer, and application. This is true for all events except for directed events such as mouse/touchscreen events which contain positional data.
The focus control for a screen is determined using the focus index value assigned to a control. A focus index is an integer value which places the control in the screen focus queue. A focus index must be unique across a screen. Focus can be navigated via the focus actions which allow for setting focus and moving through the focus queue (next/prev). The focus actions are described in more detail in the Action Definitions section of this document.
The data change is a meta-stage in the execution pipeline. It is one of many potential outcomes of executing an action handler in response to an event. However, since most actions cause a change of state, and most state information and variables are maintained in the data manager, this topic deserves special discussion.
The data manager provides clients with the ability to be notified of data content changes through data change listener callback functions. Since it is possible for multiple action handlers to be invoked as a result of a single event, these callback functions should be restricted to a bare minimum of functionality otherwise they may introduce undesired delay to the graphical rendering operations.
Data change listener notification/processing occurs after all of the actions have been processed for a particular event, allowing data changes resulting from multiple actions to be more efficiently processed.
The display render action is also a meta-stage in the execution pipeline. As actions are executed, if any of these actions cause changes to data or state which is relevant to the rendering of content on the current screen, then the display will be refreshed with the updated content. If there is no change in data content that would affect the current screen, then there is no display update required.
A Storyboard application may be multi-threaded, however the execution pipeline is single threaded. This serialization is provided by the servicing of the event queue as each event is processed through the execution pipeline in sequence.
Internally, within the Engine framework, multiple threads are used to simplify control logic for things such as supporting multiple input sources, or timed event activities.
The threads that are run as part of the Storyboard framework are generally not signal handling, and mask off all signals. In certain situations there may be a requirement to handle specific signals, but in those situations the signal handling behavior will be documented as part of the component API.
The most frequently used animation are those that occur during screen transitions. A screen transition is a way to move from the visible screen to a new screen which may or may not have common layers. By default screen transitions can be invoked by using one of the following actions:
Transition to a new screen immediately
Fade the new screen into the current screen over time
Slide the new screen in and the old screen out over time, this happens from one of the following directions
Grow the new screen over the current screen
All transition actions which are time based take similar arguments that control the duration of the transition, the rate at which the transitions will occur, the orientation of the transition and the number of frames that should be used. Using these arguments, the designer can both control the user experience (i.e. duration and effects) as well as the overhead incurred on the system (frequency of frame updates).
During a screen transition 4 events will be generated to notify the system of the current state. These events are:
This event is generated for the new screen being shown. The event will be generated before the transition starts. This event gives the user a chance to change data via the gra.datachange action or Lua before ther transition content is updated.
This event is generated for the previous screen being hidden. The event will be generated before the transition starts.
This event is generated for the new screen being shown. The event will be generated after the transition has completed
This event is generated for the previous screen being hidden. The event will be generated after the transition has completed.
The following illustrates the sequence of events:
The transitions are written such that if graphics hardware layer support is are available, then these layers, assuming they are available for use, will be leveraged to lower the processing overhead for the system during the transition period. Experience has demonstrated that it is possible to achieve smooth transitions at almost no CPU cost when the hardware capabilities can be properly leveraged.
Animations can be achieved through the use of timers and the
manipulation of data variables. A control can be moved by changing its
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The Storyboard action operation behavior based on events and actions provides a limited amount of logic capabilities. When more sophisticated glue logic is needed to control behaviour, a scripting language can be used to interact with the Storyboard environment.
Scripting support is provided through action plugins and there are no limits with respect to which languages may be used. The default scripting language that is provided with the Storyboard framework is Lua (www.lua.org).
Lua was selected for its small footprint, high performance and its ability to be quickly integrated with custom extensions through a well defined C module programming interface.
For more information about the Storyboard Lua integration, refer to the Scripting with Lua section of this document.
Communication with external processes in the embedded system can be accomplished in sevaral fashions. One approach that provides a strong API while maintaining a loose coupling for the implementation is to use Storyboard IO.
Storyboard IO, historically known as GREIO, is provided as a plugin for the Storyboard Engine as well as a C API and library for external applications to use.
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For more details about the client Storyboard IO API, refer to the Storyboard IO API section of this document. For more details about the Storyboard IO action, refer to the Action Definitions section of this document.
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The screen manager listens for data changes and checks the state of controls to determine when the display needs to be refreshed. If the data for controls is changing rapidly this may cause thrashing of the display and possible flicker if not using double buffering. When changing data values, moving controls or generating events which would cause the display to be updated it is advisable to hold the screen manager updates until all changes have been made. Once modifications are complete the screen manager can be released and the display updated is needed. The actions are as follows:


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Hector Santiago will take the mound in his place. Sale has posted a fantastic 2.53 ERA and 0.92 WHIP in nine outings this season, fanning 61 batters and allowing only 15 walks in 64 innings. Any kind of shoulder trouble is concerning, but the White Sox don't seem to think this will wind up being a big deal.
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How is the morale in Waterloo?
Some of you seem to know people at RIM. From what you see and with all the negative aspects these days, how are the morale in Waterloo? Knowing that if it is too low it is wise too say that boring things will emerge. But if enthusiasm is among some key persons, it could make a difference. I wish it is still possible to think the morale is up but it would take a very strong guru at RIM. Anyone has this quality in the team?
Whilst it must be frustrating to know that you make not one but a whole range of the best damn smartphone ever made and to be selling like wildfire everywhere EXCEPT in the USA, RIM employees must know that what is coming is trully massive.
You know that we have seen a couple of pics of the new phones, we have experienced the excellence of QNX with the PlayBook and there is a new killer opdate coming for taht device with OS2. So I think that whist RIM have got to overcome a lot of the current negative publicity (now, I wonder who could have started and fanned that? Surely not a competitor...). Once they have done that, the future for RIM looks very bright indeed.
I am certainly staying with the dark fruit phone for the foreseeable future.I used to be indecisive now, I'm not so sure. - 11-17-11, 08:28 AM #3
I think it is the constant negative articles in tech websites/blogs (all of which come from the USA) that continue to hurt the brand. I mean I read a CNET "ask maggie" (not sure if that's the right name, will post a link later" and she went on to say she doesn't like Blackberries, but when the guy said he does a lot of email she still was negative. And what is worse is she admits she doesn't write long emails from her iPhone because of the on screen keyboard is only good for sending short messages!!!
I hope the men and women who are RIM don't let it get to them! And I do hope that they see more growth in the US. As everywhere else they seem to be doing ok.
I'm sticking with RIM.
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I think RIM is steady in the shadow. They must stay low profile for now, people will finally calm down. This is a good strategy, since they have nothing concrete in hands.
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I would love to!
Anyway, I don't know about the company as a whole, but the few people I do know seem to have a good morale and can't understand why BBs get all the negative press.
They love/like their jobs.
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The morale is not bad, a few people aren't as happy as they once were but most of my friends still love it there.
And I am told the same thing, you should see what's coming. The company is finally sharing some of the vision with the employees and not keeping them in the dark. Living close to Waterloo, sometimes you can catch people talking about the upcoming phones and ideas.
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11-17-11, 07:48 PM #9RIM still one of the BEST place, if not THE BEST place to work in Canada. The high level engineering design teams are under pressure to perform well. But this is the nature of any job anyway. RIM seems to be focusing its future on marks in Asia including India and China two of the largest populations.
One of my friends went from IBM Canada service office to RIM as soon as she received the job. So, a lot of Canadians love to work at RIM.
Remember, Ontario, the province where RIM HQ is located, seen a huge drop in jobs thanks to bad economy. I bet that most people work at RIM love it because they are happy to have job at the first place.
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I don't know anybody working at RIM well enough to have heard anything (I know of a couple people from my Computer Science program working there but not well enough to be in the loop). But I would bet that the morale is still doing ok - maybe not great like it might have been 4 years ago, but ok. One thing that helps with that I think it is in Ontario, where BlackBerry is still the dominant platform - partly just because of geographic loyalty. Last time I was in Toronto a few weeks ago, I did a quick inventory of the smartphones on the transit ride I was on, and it came out to something like 25 BB's, 0 iPhones, and 1 Android. When Google set up their new office in Waterloo earlier this year, a bunch of U of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier students organized protests against Google to encourage people to keep buying BlackBerry's. If the HQ was somewhere in the States with a low userbase, it would probably hurt morale more, but here in Ontario they can still see their products everywhere. They are still taking a beating from the media of course, but I think seeing their users out in the world plus having some idea of what's coming would keep them fairly interested.
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Working at the University of Waterloo I have a couple of friends across the parking lot at RIM. They tell me that they have never been this excited about whats coming in BBX. They refuse to give me any specifics but also say some of the BBX concepts are mindblowing. Apparently the Cascades stuff shown at Devcon makes building eye candy really easy.
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That's been the biggest problem with RIM over the years. Months of talk and hype and then fail to deliver a really good product. The competition is blowing them away with cutting edge hardware and software while RIM makes minor upgrades to their already outdated software and devices. This is one reason why they are loosing all kinds of market share in the US. US consumers are on the cutting edge of the smartphone wave. Not like the 3rd world countries where RIM seems to be doing well, for now.
New data now shows that iPhones have surpassed Blackberries in enterprises. I have witnessed this first hand at my company. Within 2 years after the iPhone was approved by IT for use at our company more than half of our employees have made the switch. I would say within another year the company can no longer justify maintaining the BES / blackberry platform. The cost to keep the BES servers maintained and running for a few holdouts will not be justifiable. - 11-17-11, 08:43 PM #15
Well I wish I could say more but if they can deliver on the ideas they have then they can get back in the game. Execution is the key which has not been RIM's strong suit.
Can't say more, pesky NDA's.
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Have you read the report? I am assuming you are talking about the ipass report. I tried downloading the full report, no such luck but from the first 7 pages, you do not come away with that conclusion. From the charts, 80% of the companies provide and support Blackberry and intend to upgrade in the next 3 months. As I said, I haven't read the report but I am trying to figure out how they got that conclusion. - 11-17-11, 09:01 PM #18
The iPhone is just popular right now and some companies will experiment with other brands. And isn't there a "buy American" campaign in the US right now
Apple makes a good product and some places are just changing-over...because it's trendy.
RIM will come back hard because they're better
I own a Mac running Lion and I'm thoroughly impressed with the playbook and the future of RIM. Apple is a great product but even with some annoyances pb >> iPad ...oh..and I can't forget....pb >> Kindle-ing - 11-17-11, 09:02 PM #19
for the sake of the final flagship device released with bbx;i damn sure hope it is high
I waited...It launched...Im still waiting... - 11-17-11, 09:41 PM #21
Let's see....Octoberfest was how long ago? I think the folks in Waterloo invented morale long before they invented the Blackberry. Who's got Rangers tickets?...anyone? Anyone?
Rim is in the heart of Canada's "silicon valley" and draws on the great association it has with the University of Waterloo.... Canada's "MIT"....
I am very confident exciting things are coming from Rim and would not underestimate their capacity for innovation ..... - 11-17-11, 10:21 PM #23
i work with a large company and we have 2400 bb. we have offered the iphone for 2 years now, they number 200....bb is relavent
over the last year i find myself defending rim so i can sympothise with the good folks in waterloo. like them, i am excited for real change...not just talk , it just has to happen. im looking foward to q1 and q2.
the hate for rim reminds me of what happened to vanilla ice....we loved him so, cool hair, cool tune...but then someone said he had no street cred, and boom...the world turned on him...rim has street cred and thats why they will make a come back!
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It feels good to read such comforting replies about RIM. Life has its difficulties but when you mix knowledge, drive and work it usually ends up with very positive things. And I have increasingly the feeling that RIM will come out with exceptional products. To everyone working at RIM don't be distracted with panic and negative. Just be focus to be THE best.
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DOWNLOAD: Atlas Sound - "Terra Incognita" (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Atlas Sound - "Te Amo" (MP3)
Atlas Sound at Creators Project in October (more by Dominick Mastrangelo)
Bradford Cox released the latest effort under his Atlas Sound moniker, Parallax, on November 8 via 4AD. For someone who seemingly can't stop releasing songs, when Bradford puts out a proper full length, it always comes off as a cohesive piece of work and Parallax is his most focused album yet. It's got a similar overall feel to the dreamier direction Deerhunter took on 2010's excellent Halcyon Digest, but the material is so strong that it hardly sounds repetitive. The flow of the album subtly works in the slower, more ambient cuts to space out the relatively high amount (for an Atlas Sound record) of pop standouts. Like many pop experimentalists before him, Bradford has mastered the art of leaving his own weird touch on even the simplest tune. This comes across most strongly on "Mona Lisa," a re-recording of a track that appeared on his Bedroom Databank collection. The song is carried by the sort of upbeat acoustic guitar rock that Bowie experimented with on Hunky Dory, and Bradford sings with a fragile falsetto that brings to mind Lennon's "#9 Dream." You can stream the entire Parallax album on Spotify and purchase it at the 4AD webstore. You can also grab two MP3s from the album above.
As mentioned, Atlas Sound will be playing in NYC this winter, like he has been doing for the past few years. Earlier today, we mentioned the 12/17 Bell House show, which tickets are on sale for. It has since been announced that another show is happening on December 18 at Bowery Ballroom, which is good news for those who plan on attending our BV Holiday Party with Twin Sister, Widowspeak, and Ava Luna on 12/17 at Bowery Ballroom (tickets). Both Atlas Sound shows are with Balkans. Tickets for the Bowery Ballroom show go on sale Friday (11/25) at noon.
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6:53 PM can look in the mirror and comment at the same time. cool
Posted by Anonymous | November 23, 2011 7:28 PM
@9:56am - and you are probably a no-talent, good-looking fratboy - lay off Bradford
Posted by Anonymous | November 24, 2011 11:12 AM
A good-looking fratboy who can't sing. Way to plunge that dagger, 11:12.
Posted by Anonymous | November 24, 2011 11:25 AM
BC gets enough people licking his asshole, he can stand to have it revealed that he's an insufferable brat who can barely shit on his own
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Posted by Anonymous | November 24, 2011 6:56 PM
seriously this guy sucks, saw him at st. cecilia's this year and he sounded like absolute shit, worst show I had seen in a long time.
Posted by Anonymous | November 24, 2011 7:45 PM
@7:45 maybe you got unlucky. every time ive seen atlas sound its been a revelation.
Posted by Anonymous | November 24, 2011 9:00 PM
if living well is the best revenge, then what is living like a friendless paranoid nutcase primadonna?
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Posted by Anonymous | November 26, 2011 12:39 PM
those who have shallow and degrading things to say about Bradford are completely irrelevant in every sense of the word.
This is shaping up like a Noel Coward
play. Somebody should go make martinis.....
Posted by Anonymous | November 26, 2011 3:56 PM
"revelation" ???
this guy drinks lattes, cashes his parents checks, and shops at the bedford avenue Salvation Army (the only generous thing he does all week long)
Posted by Anonymous | November 26, 2011 8:37 PM
Bradford is an insufferable self-aggrandizing drama queen with a huge case of asperger's
Posted by Anonymous | November 26, 2011 8:40 PM
nah, the guy is impossible to deal with
ask anyone who's met him
Posted by Anonymous | November 27, 2011 12:05 AM
Whats up with the album review? lol saw this guy live was, TOTAL mistake
Posted by Anonymous | November 27, 2011 11:04 AM
any one talking shit about him, is most likely a no talent ass clown. typical BV hate shit.
Posted by Anonymous | November 27, 2011 1:12 PM
nice voice and oddly really generous with his things, but what a jerk. bullied to the point he's the biggest bully of them all. he behaves like someone on meth. remarkable he doesn't take any. i honestly don't know why the people around him take so much abuse. oh now i remember bc us kids today are taught to put up with all sorts of abuse for a few moments of free food and "fame." but some of those people around him are so kind. it breaks my heart to have witnessed that abuse.
Posted by Anonymous | November 28, 2011 9:13 AM
I favor the Te Amo song more for ear candy. Terra Incognita is more a relaxing lay on the grass type of tune.
Also, last time I checked this isn't a fashion blog so I don't really care what he looks like. People hate the ones they love the most.
Posted by ghost | November 28, 2011 4:29 PM
Look at all the twerps getting riled up and defensive when anything negative is posted about this band/man. Yes, idiots and keep doing those little sausage comments as well. At least metal fans handle comments like that better.
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